Counter-Reformation
1540–1648 · Event
Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation; renewal of Catholic doctrine, founding of Jesuits, Roman Inquisition, missionary expansion.
On these timelines: Christianity, Major Religions, Master, Spain
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